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Strange Travellers by Gene Wolfe
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £10.74Gene Wolfe is producing the most significant body of short fiction of any living writer in the SF genre. It has been ten years since the last major Wolfe collection, so STRANGE TRAVELLERS contains a... -
Phases of the Moon: A Cultural History of the Werewolf Film Craig Ian Mann 9781474441124
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £21.13Examines the cultural significance of the werewolf film Provides the first academic monograph dedicated to developing a cultural understanding of the werewolf film Reconsiders the... -
Gender, Science Fiction Television, and the American Security State: 1958-Present M. Wildermuth 9781137408884
SciFier: £46.99As American security became increasingly dependent on technology to shape the consciousness of its populace and to defend them, science fiction shows like The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, and The... -
At the Movies, Film Reviewing, and Screenwriting by Steven Maras (University of Western Australia, Australia)
RRP: £89.95SciFier: £82.23This book examines film reviewing and screenwriting as key sites of cultural mediation, providing new insights on the relationship between criticism and reviewing, as well as the way reviewers handle... -
Women Filmmakers in Mexico by Elissa J. Rashkin
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Women filmmakers in Mexico were rare until the 1980s and 1990s, when women began to direct feature films in unprecedented numbers. Their films have won acclaim at home and abroad, and the filmmakers... -
Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde by Bill Nichols
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £24.30Regarded as one of the founders of the postwar American independent cinema, the legendary Maya Deren was a poet, photographer, ethnographer, filmmaker and impresario. Her efforts to promote an... -
The Lore of New Mexico by Marta Weigle
SciFier: £52.99First published in 1988, this award-winning compendium of New Mexico's Indian, Hispanic and Anglo traditions is the state's first complete folklore volume. Using a broad range of sources from... -
Who's Who in Faeryland by John Kruse
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.95This book offers a series of biographies of some of the most significant and best-known of the faery folk. A lot of faeries are extremely familiar to us, being distinct characters with names and... -
100 Bible Films Matthew Page (Independent scholar, UK) 9781839023538
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £58.76"Exhaustively researched." Total Film From The Passion of the Christ to Life of Brian, and from The Ten Commandments to Last Temptation of Christ, filmmakers have been adapting the stories of the... -
Princess Mononoke: Understanding Studio Ghibli's Monster Princess Rayna Denison (University of East Anglia, UK) 9781501354878
SciFier: £36.99This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Princess Mononoke (1997) is one of anime's most important... -
Hollywood Quarterly by Eric Smoodin
RRP: £24.00SciFier: £22.41The first issue of Hollywood Quarterly, in October 1945, marked the appearance of the most significant, successful, and regularly published journal of its kind in the United States. For its entire... -
Ludomusicology: Approaches to Video Game Music Melanie Fritsch 9781781791981
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.99The last half-decade has seen the rapid and expansive development of video game music studies. As with any new area of study, this significant sub-discipline is still tackling fundamental questions... -
Children in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock Debbie Olson 9781349501854
SciFier: £94.08Children and youth perform both innocence and knowingness within Hitchcock's complex cinematic texts. Though the child often plays a small part, their significance - symbolically, theoretically, and... -
Discovering Short Films: The History and Style of Live-Action Fiction Shorts C. Felando 9781137488473
RRP: £89.99SciFier: £82.99As film history's oldest and one of today's most prominent forms, the live-action short film has both historical and contemporary significance. Felando discusses the historical significance of the... -
Of Solids and Surds by Samuel R Delany
SciFier: £15.40In the fourth volume in the Why I Write series, the iconic Samuel Delany remembers fifty years of writing and shaping the world of speculative fiction "Delany's prismatic output is among the most... -
Cotton by Professor Beverly Lemire
SciFier: £114.99This book explores the fascinating history and present-day practices associated with cotton. This is a story of commercial and cultural enterprise, of the ties and tensions between East and West, of... -
Ludomusicology: Approaches to Video Game Music Melanie Fritsch 9781781791974
SciFier: £78.49The last half-decade has seen the rapid and expansive development of video game music studies. As with any new area of study, this significant sub-discipline is still tackling fundamental questions... -
George Sidney: A Bio-Bibliography Eric Monder 9780313284571
SciFier: £68.99George Sidney directed a number of popular Hollywood films, such as Anchors Aweigh, Show Boat, Kiss Me Kate, and Bye Bye Birdie. His revisions of traditional Hollywood product resulted in films that... -
Contemporary US Cinema Michael Allen 9780582437760
SciFier: £61.40Contemporary U.S. Cinema is a forceful exploration of the tumultuous changes that have dominated the shifting landscape of American film-making over the past three decades. From the explosive release... -
Sir Rohan's Ghost. A Romance by Harriet Prescott Spofford
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £79.62Originally published in 1860, the formative Gothic novel 'Sir Rohan's Ghost' by Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921), one of nineteenth-century America's most significant woman writers, relates the... -
Documentary for the Small Screen Paul Kriwaczek 9780240514727
RRP: £71.99SciFier: £71.45Film and video have grown to be as significant in our time as books, newspapers and magazines. Documentary film-making is fast becoming as important and useful a skill as the ability to write well... -
Larry Cohen by Tony Williams
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £25.51This book is the second edition of the only published study devoted to Larry Cohen and explaining his significance as a great American director. Long out of print and sought after, it covers all the... -
South American Cinema: A Critical Filmography, l915-l994 Timothy Barnard 9780824045746
SciFier: £93.70First Published in 1996. This text looks at the cinema from the countries of Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, United States, Uruguay and Venezuela. Presented by country and date... -
Japanese Culture Through Videogames Rachael Hutchinson (University of Delaware, USA) 9780367728151
SciFier: £42.86Examining a wide range of Japanese videogames, including arcade fighting games, PC-based strategy games and console JRPGs, this book assesses their cultural significance and shows how gameplay and... -
Children in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock Debbie Olson 9781137475541
SciFier: £94.16Children and youth perform both innocence and knowingness within Hitchcock's complex cinematic texts. Though the child often plays a small part, their significance - symbolically, theoretically, and... -
The Song of Middle-earth: J. R. R. Tolkien's Themes, Symbols and Myths David Harvey 9780008184810
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.22Available for the first time in paperback, this is the pre-eminent critical study, and exploration, of how myth and legend played such a significant role in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. ... -
A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Renaissance by Elizabeth Currie
SciFier: £33.54Spurred by an increasingly international and competitive market, the Renaissance saw the development of many new fabrics and the use of highly prized ingredients imported from the New World. In... -
100 Greatest Video Game Characters by Jaime Banks
SciFier: £47.99Though in existence for only a few decades, video games are now firmly established in mainstream culture all around the planet. Every year new games are produced, and every year new favorites emerge... -
The Cinema in France: After the New Wave Jill Forbes 9780333414309
SciFier: £44.99This major study of the contemporary French cinema includes a survey of the French film industry, chapters on major genres such as political and documentary cinema, women's cinema, comedy, the... -
Beyond Bollywood: The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film Jigna Desai 9780415966856
SciFier: £39.39Beyond Bollywood is the first comprehensive look at the emergence, development, and significance of contemporary South Asian diasporic cinema. From a feminist and queer perspective, Jigna Desai... -
From Tartan to Tartanry by Ian Brown
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.81This book considers the significance of tartan in Scottish history and culture, and the rise of tartanry in the representation of Scottishness. This is an historically and critically sound - and... -
Textiles of China and Central Asia by Mariachiara Gasparini
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £51.89This stunning exploration of Chinese and Central Asian textiles draws from one of the world's major collections. In private hands, it features objects never before published and of a caliber... -
Moonlight by Maria Flood
SciFier: £20.33This book helps readers understand Moonlight's profound political and social importance, the innovative technical choices adopted by director Barry Jenkins and the film's adoption and disruption of... -
Anime's Knowledge Cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai Jinying Li 9781517916275
RRP: £99.00SciFier: £78.62Unlocking the technosocial implications of global geek cultures Why has anime, a "low-tech" medium from last century, suddenly become the cultural "new cool" in the information age? Through the lens... -
Anime's Knowledge Cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai Jinying Li 9781517916282
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Unlocking the technosocial implications of global geek cultures Why has anime, a "low-tech" medium from last century, suddenly become the cultural "new cool" in the information age? Through the lens... -
Drawn to Sound by Rebecca Coyle
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £23.99Animation films are widely consumed in the general population and the study of animation films has blossomed. But music and sound are often marginalized, despite the significance of music, voice... -
Re-viewing Hitchcock: New Critical Perspectives Robert E. Kapsis (City University of New York, USA.) 9781839026195
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £29.73Re-viewing Hitchcock approaches Alfred Hitchcock's prolific career in film and television from a reception focus, charting the changing fortunes of the master auteur's work from 1927's silent The... -
Gonzo: Hunter S.Thompson Biography by Will Bingley
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £9.89Over the course of Hunter S. Thompson's extraordinary life he was publically branded a bum, a vandal, a thief, a liar, an addict, a freak and a psychopath. Some of these epithets were true. Yet,... -
Film Firsts by Ethan Alter
SciFier: £53.49This forward-looking exploration of contemporary American film across the last 40 years identifies and examines the specific movies that changed the film industry and shaped its present and future. ... -
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The Meaning and Culture of ""Grand Theft Auto: Critical Essays Nate Garrelts 9780786428229
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.61Grand Theft Auto is among the most culturally significant video game franchises in history. Popular among adult gamers, the games have become icons for child endangerment, and are frequently cited in...